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The maul and the pear tree : the ratcliffe highway murders 1811

This is an account of seven bloody, apparently unprovoked killings in East London in the weeks before Christmas, 1811. Known collectively as the Ratcliffe Highway Murders, they caused such revulsion in the community that the corpse of the alleged killer was buried with a stake through his heart.
Print Book, English, 1987
Penguin Books, London [etc.], 1987
234 p. ; 18 cm
9780140131864, 0140131868
1122995388